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DC Studios co-head Peter Safran admits Supergirl ‘didn’t meet our expectations at the box office’ – but it doesn’t look like that will force him and James Gunn to revise their ambitious plan for the DCU

DC Studios will not change its long-term vision for its cinematic universe This is what co-CEO Peter Safran told a reporter after Supergirlthe disastrous launch The Milly Alcock-led film only earned $68 million in its opening weekend It looks like this is the damage limitation deadline for DC Studios. After Supergirl Launched – then bombed […]

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‘It’s a step in the right direction’: Oracle set to open source MySQL – but will it be everything developers want?

Oracle admitted it needed a new approach in February The company now offers a new community approach to MySQL. Community roles and steering committee will ensure maximum quality Oracle’s vice president of external standards and community engagement, Heather VanCura, revealed in a blog post the company’s “next phase” of MySQL community engagement as it seeks

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Google says Android’s built-in earthquake alert system alerted 11.4 million people before the Venezuela earthquake. Here’s how to find it on your phone

Android earthquake alerts reached 11.4 million Venezuelans last week The feature is now installed on 2.5 billion Android phones If you live in a country covered by the feature, it should be enabled by default As of 2021, Android phones have had a built-in earthquake detection feature – and according to Google figures, it was

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‘This should be illegal’: Sony removes over 500 purchased movies from PlayStation Store accounts – and it’s the ultimate warning to buy 4K Blu-rays instead

Hundreds of TV episodes and movies will be removed from PlayStation Store accounts on September 1 People bought the movies and shows No apology, let alone compensation, from Sony One of the best things about Blu-ray discs is that you don’t have to worry about Sony sneaking into your house in the middle of the

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One of AMD’s most powerful CPUs gets a 60% price cut: 192-core EPYC 9965 CPU costs less than $6,000 new and I can’t explain why it’s so cheap

The AMD Zen 5-based EPYC 9965 is on sale on eBay for just under $6,000 With 192 cores and 384 threads, AMD’s offering can handle up to 6TB of RAM per processor for AI-centric workloads. The processor not only offers the highest core count of any x86 processor to date, but it also stands out

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Forget Ryzen AI! AMD launches its slowest processor in years because ‘not all customers can afford a new PC’: Zen+ 2019 processor will at least be compatible with Windows 11

AMD has “relaunched” three processors that use existing cores to meet demand at the lower end of its mobile and desktop processor offerings. The processors range from 2 to 8 cores and leverage its older Zen+ and Zen 2 core technologies as the chip designer grapples with memory and storage shortages to serve an increasingly

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Fitbit’s Gemini AI coach gives users ‘unhinged’ fitness advice – here’s why users say they ‘can’t wait for my trial to end’

Fitbit devices feature a new fitness trainer powered by Gemini AI But AI appears to be giving people extremely questionable advice. Users have expressed their dissatisfaction with this feature Fitbit recently introduced a new fitness trainer powered by Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence (AI), and it’s safe to say that it received a lot of criticism

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Adobe and Disney Partner to Design the Next Generation of Theme Park Rides with Foundry AI

Disney Imagineering plans to use Adobe’s Firefly AI services to create the next generation of theme park rides based on its own intellectual property. Disney says the move builds on decades of collaboration between the two companies The move is seen as a significant victory for Adobe, which is facing increasingly pessimistic investor sentiment with

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IBM just packed 100 billion transistors into a chip smaller than thought possible just a few years ago

IBM pushes transistor density below the dreaded nanometer barrier NanoStack abandons flat die layouts in favor of vertical stacking of transistors Prototype delivered 50% more performance during IBM lab testing IBM has unveiled what it describes as the world’s first sub-1nm chip technology, carrying nearly 100 billion transistors on an area the size of a

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